Online education holds the promise to increase access and decrease the cost of higher education. Yet many community college students and employers remain skeptical about the value of online learning, according to recent research. While employers and students recognize a niche for online classes, degrees and certificates, for now at least, they do not trust it as much as they do traditional education. More »

This infographic brings attention to the impact broadband has on our lives, our health, our government, our jobs and our education while considering whom among us does not use the Internet and who does not have home broadband access. More »

Dr. Charles Kurzman, Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill presents his research on changing academic attention to world regions over the past 50 years, “attention” as measured by analyzing works published about each region of the world and collected in U.S. academic libraries for each year of publication since 1958. More »

Number of content collections available through the WorldCat knowledge base, which combines data about the electronic resources a library holds with linking features that enable access to that content.

10,357

WorldCat is the world’s most comprehensive database of library materials. Updated at a rate of nearly one new record every second, WorldCat contains bibliographic records and holdings contributed by more than 11,000 libraries around the world. Learn more »

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